Friday, August 17, 2012

Kołobrzegis
a city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland with
some 50,000 inhabitants (as of 2000). Kołobrzeg is located on the Parsęta River
on the south coast of the Baltic Sea (in the middle of the section divided by
the Oder and Vistula Rivers). It has been the capital of Kołobrzeg County in
West Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, and previously was in Koszalin
Voivodship (1950–1998).During the Early Middle Ages, Slavic Pomeranians founded a
settlement at the site of modern Budzistowo. Thietmar of Merseburg first
mentioned the site as Salsa Cholbergiensis. Around the year 1000,
when the area was under Polish rule, the stronghold became seat of the Diocese
of Kołobrzeg. During High Middle Ages, the town was expanded with additional
settlement was founded a few kilometers north of the stronghold in the course
of the Ostsiedlung and chartered with Lübeck law. The city later joined the
Hanseatic League. Within the Duchy of Pomerania, Kolberg was the urban center
of the secular reign of the Cammin bishops and their residence throughout the
High and Late Middle Ages. When Kolberg was part of Brandenburgian Pomerania
during the Early Modern Age, it withstood Polish and Napoleon's troops in the
Siege of Kolberg. From 1815, it was part of the Prussian province of Pomerania.
During the 19th century a Polish community started to organize itself. As the
Nazis took power in Germany, Poles and Jews were discriminated, determined to
be subhuman and eventually subjected to genocide. In 1945 Polish and Soviet
troops seized the town and it was subsequently attached to Poland, while the
remaining German population, which had not fled the advancing Red Army was
expelled. The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt
but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin. This lovely
card was sent to me by Krystyna.

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